TAKIN' IT TO THE STARS - EMOTION LOTION!
I am having a very topsy-turvy emotional time lately. I'm feeling depressed and missing my family a lot and friends back in L.A. It was very nice to speak to my family on Easter, I like talking to them on the phone. It makes me feel a lot less homesick.
We had a really nice long weekend here in London. Friday was good, as Good Friday should be! Ben and I slept in a bit and then got up and headed out to the Knightsbridge / South Kensington area. I went to Havey Nichols to the MAC makeup counter and got the loose powder I was out of. Then, we went to Harrod's. I have never been there before, and it really was cool - packed with people- but cool nonetheless. The colourful array of Easter candy left me in awe, I felt like I had walked into Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory! We had Krispy Kreme doughnuts and they were really nice!
Next, we headed to the Science Museum. We got tickets to see the film 'Robots' on the big IMax screen, which we would be doing with Ken a couple of hours after. We then looked around the museum, and it was really good. They have the actual capsule from the Apollo 10 space flight there. In the gift shop, we bought a little kite and decided to head to the park to try to fly it.
On the way to the park, Ben got me an ice cream cone. It was very yummy. Then a bird pooped on my hand, narrowly missing the ice cream. Ben laughed and laughed. We didn't have much luck getting the kite in the air, there wasn't enough of a breeze. It's a pretty handy little kite for only 3 pounds! We hung around the park for a bit until it was getting closer to 4, the time we said we'd meet Ken at South Kensington tube station.
At the station, we took silly photos of ourselves wearing our sunglasses in the sun with our mobile phone cameras. We met Ken and then went to a chippy and got a chicken and mushroom pie and chips and then sat in a square near the Victoria & Albert Museum and ate and watched some kids climb all over a statue. Then it wastime to go back to the Science Museum to see 'Robots'. Across the street from the museum there was a herd of Chavs (bling-bling tacky style people) by a red telephone box, so Ken took a photo as the perfect image of London and then we hurried into the museum before they could come beat him up.
The film was really fun and looked really cool on that giant screen. I enjoyed it a lot! After the film, we headed for a pub. I was getting hungry, but Ben and Ken seemed unsure about what they wanted to do. On the way to the pub, we passed the Kentronic shop and Ken stood on a railing and took a photo of himself in front of the sign. Ben took a photo of me watching Ken take a photo of himself.
In the pub over some beers we decided that we should go play pool. Ken called Marianna to see if she would look on the internet to find out where the nearest Riley's games hall was since Ben and I have membership cards. She figured it out for us and then we ventured over there. I believe it was in Shepherd's Bush.
We played pool for an hour and it was fun! I was a little bit irritated because I was still hungry but Ben thought I should order food at the pool hall, but I know that sometimes they take a really long time and if we were only going to stay an hour then I didn't want to bother.
After pool, I think we parted ways with Ken and headed home. I don't remember what we ended up eating for dinner! So that was my Good Friday, it was really fun. I'll write more about the rest of my holiday weekend soon if I get the time.